The Time of Green Magic Flashcards
Her lips tasted salty
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Lately it had begun to have a sound to it, a soft echo when you opened the pages, like the ocean sound in a seashell.
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He did it with such admirable cheerfulness and calm that very soon the injured ones stopped feeling like woeful victims and became instead very pleased with themselves, fine adventurers and heroes all.
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Even more, in her new tiny bedroom, where she could not even escape with books without feeling guilty, because she was the only one with a room of her own.
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The rocking horse was yet another problem.
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Mum means we’re going to have to move house
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Beside the front door was a lantern straight out of Narnia, wrought iron and glass panels.
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You can get another fifty pounds, but I can’t even get another signed Harry Potter book.
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Where they had lived before they’d had so little space that everyone always knew where everyone else was to be found.
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Some days the business actually earned money, or would have if its owners hadn’t immediately rushed out and spent it on bike-repair and car-cleaning equipment.
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She found a tunnel in the yew hedge, wriggled through, and discovered the old graveyard.
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Do you think she reads too much?
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How will I tell him that I have to go away?
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She’s found you a babysitter!
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She brought her art work back with her, and when it was spread out on the kitchen table, she became entirely absorbed.
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And the feeling of living in a guarded space, cloaked in green ivy leaves.
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Still, he longed for a letter of his own.
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The parrot left its perch to fly, grass-green wings, coral-red beak, dark primary feathers spread like a fan against the sun-bleached sky.
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It was all wet, dark with water, and the pages buckled with damp.
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How, how, how, he wondered, to make a nowl find his ivy?
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The cat-thing sank down, deep and heavy on the bed.
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It was a picture of a bus balanced half over a cliff.
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Your cheesy sneakers that you left at my house are in the bin.
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There were no bolts on this time, nothing to hold it except the lock, but he grabbed the table (spilling the salad) and managed to wedge it with that.
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He couldn’t look at anyone, so he concentrated on opening the oven and lifting out the macaroni cheese.
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He didn’t know if it was the best night of his life or the worst; it was impossible to tell.
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Yes, but do people ever come in because they’ve had accidents with books?
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Shouldn’t you have got the chimney swept first?
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Deep in the dark, she woke to find sand on her pillow and a new seashell in her hand, white, speckled with caramel markings, rose pink inside.
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And now this squirrel on his pillow.
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Little more chalk, little more water, then again.
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None of those words say “elephant”!
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You opened my letter!
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She’d never been alone in the house before, nor realized how big it was.
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I was, she realized gradually, the wind in the open window, sucking the curtains in and out.
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I am needing my money today, sill vous plait.
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It was a sound so deep as to be more felt than heard, a rumbling vibration, an immense echo of comfort, half lullaby, half drumroll.
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There he stretched out two irritated sets of hooked black claws, and with a lovely canvas tearing sound, he sliced eight long protesting rips into the patchwork bedside mat.
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It was just a dry fragment, but it might have blown from a winter tree in Amsterdam.
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Do you believe me?
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He’s gotten very big.
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Is he real enough to touch?
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It wasn’t nice to be alone in a shrouded room, stuck between a sheet and a dark wooden wall, with the evening black outside the windows.
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She had snow on her hair!
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He found her bent double and icy.
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The air was filled with the smell of soot: sour, tar-tasting and dusty.
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He whacked the quilt and my leg was underneath.
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I left my window open so he didn’t scratch the door again, and I put down a bowl of milk.
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Which book?
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At first he managed quickly, finding handholds and toeholds easily amongst the knotty stems.
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He moved higher and higher, until he reached the overhand of his bedroom windowsill.
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Then, after a bit of calling and hunting, they discovered that his bedroom door was jammed.
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A whole huge stem of ivy detached and swung down from the wall.
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To cover his sudden awareness of this frightening and yet wonderful situation, he pulled her art book his way and began studying the pages.
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Tres cool, she added, with a laugh in her voice as she tucked it behind her ear.
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Bison, twenty or thirty at least, with lighter-colored young ones galloping beside.
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I think maybe you say thirty thousand years?
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He was covered in incomprehensible white dust.
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You hear a voice, and it calls you back.
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Now, for a third time, he had warmed her heart with his hesitant, Do you mind?
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Only an ivy leaf left in the hall, dropped from her hair as she hurried.
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At half past one they brought their pillows and quilts out onto the stairs.
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In an incredibly short time, the large bear snore and the small bear snuffle resumed.
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It was one of the two places where it was possible to avoid the school’s mobile-phone signal blocker.
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You’ll have to go into the art college and find her.
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I’ve been sorry for ages, he said truthfully.
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She hardly knows I exist.
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And then, beyond all hope, the door was opened, and he tumbled inside, gasping, shaking, and yet again in tears.
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Did you come back on your own?
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That’s where he belongs.
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His great amber eyes were gazing into the dimly lit cave of a room, at the huge image of running deer and the rocking shadow over them.
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The house was calling them back.
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He did suppose returning a thirty-thousand-year-old full-grown spotted mountain lion to its rightful place in time might be called a sort of tidying.
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He thought he would wait quietly until they woke up, but after the day that had just happened and the night on the stairs before, it wasn’t very long until he was asleep as well.
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He began practicing hairstyles and cool, but non-smiling, expressions for passport photos.
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He’d done it, the whole letter, with terrible words like “smiling” and “photograph” and “purple.”
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